DREER'S SPECIALLY PREPARED 



Roses for the Garden 



While our old customers are familiar with the high grade of Roses which we send out, we wish to direct the attention of those who 

 have never planted our stock, to the manner in which these plants are prepared. All our Roses are field-grown, and in fall are carefully- 

 dug, planted in pots and stored in cold greenhouses or cold frames, where artificial heat is used only to exclude the most severe frost. 

 Under this treatment the plants develop in a natural way, and are much superior to stock which has been forced in a high temperature 

 into an unnatural and weakened growth. 



Our Roses are all strong two-year-old American-grown, budded or grafted, and while some planters prefer stock grown on their own 

 roots on account of the possibility of budded plants developing wild shoots, this will rarely occur if the deep planting as directed in our 

 cultural notes is followed. Much can be said in favor of budded plants, they being more vigorous, producing finer blooms, coming into 

 bearing sooner, and are as permanent and hardy as those on their own roots, while many of the very finest varieties will not succeed at 

 all when grown on their own roots, and preference is given to budded plants by all who have had experience with the different classes. 



CULTURAL NOTES.— We have prepared a leaflet which gives concise cultural instructions; copies free on application, 

 also offer a very good book on their culture, entitled How to grow Roses, price $2.00 per copy postpaid. 



Four Meritorious New Hybrid -Tea Roses 



Illustrated in Colors on Plate Opposite. 



Dame Edith Helen Mrs. Lovell Swisher 



We 



In this we have a new variety, in the introduction of which we 

 feel more enthusiastic than over any new Rose which we have dis- 

 tributed since the introduction of Los Angeles some ten years since, 

 and we question if any Hybrid-Tea Rose yet introduced promised 

 to be such a valuable addition to our garden Roses as this wonder- 

 ful new pink variety, one of Alexander Dickson & Sons latest Irish 

 introductions. 



The plant possesses a strong vigorous constitution with large 

 healthy dark green foliage, the flowers are produced singly on well 

 foliaged strong canes throughout the season, these are of immense 

 size, composed of very substantial broad petals which curl back 

 prettily forming a wonderful long pointed bud which develops into 

 a full double flower, which is absolutely perfect in every stage of 

 development. The color is a brilliant, yet soft Rose du Barri pink 

 and is delightfully and strongly sweet scented. 



Stock limited, strong two-year-old plants, $5.00 each. 



Frank Reader 



A new Holland introduction raised by Messrs. Verschuren & 

 Sons, the raisers of the pretty yellow Rose Souvenir de H. A. 

 Verschuren as well as other meritorious varieties. 



Frank Reader in our California trials during the past two seasons 

 has attracted great attention and at the 1926 summer show of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society of England where it was exhibited was 

 awarded a certificate of merit. 



It is a large massive flower with high pointed centre with 

 nicely reflexing petals of great substance, the long buds in 

 first developing are a light lemon-yellow, while the flowers 

 in their half expanded form reveal a heart of golden apricot; 

 it has a delicious rose apple scent. Strong two-year-old 

 plants, $2.50 each. 



We will furnish one strong two-year-old plant each 

 of the Four New Meritorious Roses for $10.00. 



New Yellow Hybrid- Tea Rose 

 "Roselandia" 



We distributed this variety last year only in young plants 

 to the growers of winter cut flowers under glass and as a result 

 of its pleasing color and free habit of flowering it is rapidly 

 finding its place as one of the standard cut flower sorts and 

 we have every reason to believe that it will prove equally 

 desirable for garden purposes, with this in view we have pre- 

 pared a stock of two-year-old plants which we now offer. 



Roselandia is a sport from the popular variety Golden Ophelia 

 over which it is an improvement not only in color but in its 

 remarkable free flowering habit. It is a golden orange suffused 

 with a lustrous glow of apricot in the heart and at the base of 

 the petals, frequently tinted red on the reverse of the outer 

 petals, the buds are long pointed of superb build and substance 

 and very sweet scented. 



Strong two-year-old plants, $2.00 each. 



(120) 



One of Howard & Smith's California Roses which we offered 

 for the first time last year and which after another season's obser- 

 vation we are convinced is one of the American raised Roses which 

 has come to stay and which as a garden Rose will undoubtedly 

 rank with such popular bedding varieties as Radiance, Red 

 Radiance, Lady Ursula, Mrs. WUliam C. Egan, etc. 



It is a remarkably vigorous grower of branching habit, well 

 furnished with excellent foliage, freely producing perfectly formed 

 long shapely buds with nicely reflexing petals that develop into 

 good double flower which in all stages of development remind one 

 of the variety Mrs. William C. Egan. The color of the buds is a 

 deep coppery salmon at base merging to salmon-pink at the tips. 

 The developed flowers are also salmon-pink deepening towards the 

 centre. Delightfully tea scented. Strong two-year-old plants, 

 $2.00 each. 



John Russell 



Another Gold Medal variety raised by Dobbie & Co. of Scotland 

 with which we have been greatly pleased, a strong vigorous up- 

 right grower somewhat resembling H. V. Machin in this respect 

 but decidedly freer flowering. Its flowers are large, very full and 

 double, of perfect form and of a rich brilliant shade of deep velvety 

 crimson. 



Strong two-year-old plants, $2.50 each. 



New Hybrid-tea Rose, Roselandia 



